West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-06-17
ALL ABOUT EARS.
Points About Them With Which Every
One is Not Acquainted.
Raltinore Snn.

Baltimore sun.
A writer in Harper's Bazaar says;
"a curious proposition has been
made bv the chief of police of one of
the large European cities, that pho
tographs of criminals should he
taken, not with the full face, as now,
but with the side face in view, using
the ear especially, other feathers
changing with the course of time
a mouth falling, an eye sinking, 4
nose projecting, a brow growing
prominent, cheek either baggy or
hollow, a chin either pointed or
doubling-but an ear always re-
naming unchanged into old age.
and no two ears being alike; so that
a thief would he known by his ear
as long rs there was anything left of
| him.
/
This would seem to involve q
singular error on the part OF those
who follow such hasty advice. No
organ, any close observer will de-
clare, changes shape more than the
ear does. Even the piercing of the
lobe for ear rings will often pull it
down and initiate it so as to work
complete transformation there; and
anybody who has . gouty acquaint-
ance may see the change wrought in
the ears by the chalky Jumps and
concretions under the skin that
never fail to show themselves there,
that sometimes attain the size of the
curious little notch seen in the up
per edge of many ears, and said by
those who have faith in the intrica.
cies of evolution to be the remnant
of the ancestral ear of the last apish
progenitor.
''Few features of the human body
are more distinctly beautiful than
the ear. when it is q beautiful ear;
that is to say, when it is rosy and
little. and so thin that the blood
glows behind it like flame. No
sea shell with its myriad delicate
whorls, with its pink and white, with
its polish and brittle daintiness, is
half so lovely, for no sea shell, after
all, is alive when we see it, or when
it has reached that stage OF beauty.
But the ear in its perfection has the
white throat bene&tll it. the cluster
inc hair above it, the damask cheek
beside it. and is set off and height
encd in every line and tint by its
surroundings, and as often as not
has the eye of the beholder fastened
to it on the point OF 4 qulverlng
Jewel elittering in it. Yet, let the
ear be ever so small and curly-a
bit of transparency in the young
girl-hers will be very exceptional
case, if, when she has attained the
age that makes caps advisable, she
is not glad of the cap to hide a large
fat piece of cartilage onSithcr side
of head-not the least disagreeable
of the dsagreeable things that have
come to her as warnings and eviden
ces of the end of all things. This
is not the case with every person, of
course; enough people to prove the
rule retain q sufficient shape to the
ear into old age; but by far the
greater number of ears cease to he
objects on which the eye Of another
cares to linger, and become objects
which make every contemporary put
up a hand to see If his own ears
have turned into flaps of elephantine
proportions. AS life goes on, every
year uncurls and straightens out the
pretty whorls of most ears, and flat
tens. and flattens and seems to en-
large, the upper and outer edge, per,
haps not through growth, nor even
the daily wiping of the part. so
much as through the loss OF fat IN
the tissues and the falling away of
neighboring roundneSs and plump
ness; the one rendering the cartilage
smooth, the other making it seem
larger than it is by comparison. In
either event, the ear of the criminal
of to-day will hardly be the same
ear to appearance ten years from to-
dav-will be a very different ear in
twenty years. The ears of elderly
persons tell the sad tale to any who
care to scrutinize them in sufficient
number to generalize from what
IS seen, and any one who chooses
may regretfully watch the process
as time passes, which transforms
one of the choicest features of phys
ical charm into one Of the ugliest.
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